Tuesday, May 31, 2005
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
The Marmot's Hole: Bring the defectors home: Nick Eberstadt - '...For the North Korean border-crossers in China, existence is stripped of the most modest vestiges of ordinary human dignity. In the cruel and unforgiving place to which they escaped, and where they remain still trapped, local rules of survival oblige them to live like animals—if they hope to live at all. You have all read about the border crossers’ existence. Many of them stay in the woods, sleeping by day and foraging by night, alone and in constant fear of discovery by fellow humans. Their women can be sold, like cattle; the men are regularly hunted down and rounded up, almost like dogs...' (Link)
